Unsupervised Learning
K-Means and Its Blind Spots
8 min+75 XPStep 1/10
Clustering by committee
K-means needs no labels at all. Drop k random centroids into feature space, then loop:
- Assign every point to its nearest centroid
- Move each centroid to the mean of the points it just claimed
- Repeat until nothing moves
That's the whole algorithm — and it segments customers, groups documents, and compresses images across a huge share of industry.